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NEW YORK CITY, located on Manhattan Island, in New York
Bay with the Hudson River and the East River on either side, is the gate-
way for the thousands of emigrants to the United States, and is the largest
city in the United States (Greater New York, over 6,000,000 population,
estimate of July, 1928), 40% of foreign birth from sixty different nations.
It is a great commercial city controlling about 40% of the imports and
exports of the country; a productive workshop, and a great social, civic
and art center. Greater New York is composed of Manhattan borough,
Bronx borough, Brooklyn borough, Queens borough and Richmond bor-
ough. The problem of transportation is a serious one, due to the conges-
tion on Manhattan Island, where the business district is, and due also to
the fact that it is long and narrow. Four bridges connect Long Island with
the city proper, as well as three pairs of tunnels. The bridges are Brook-
lyn Bridge, 6016 feet long, Manhattan Bridge, 6855 feet, Williamsburgh
Bridge, 7308 feet, and Queensborough Bridge, 7499 feet. The other bridge
is Hell Gate Bridge, from Long Island back to the mainland, at the north-
ern edge of the city, which enables trains from New England to proceed
directly west. Tubes connect New York with the Jersey side and plans are
now proposed for a traffic bridge over the Hudson, which will be an out-
standing engineering feat. Thousands of commuters going to and fro aretransported by way of great subways and elevated railroads, honeycombing
the entire island, greatly relieving surface traffic. With the growth of the
city commercially, centers of education, art and amusement have been cre-
ated, including beautiful parks and public buildings, such as the Zoolog-
ical Gardens, the Art Museum, Custom House, Morgan Library,
the Public Library, the Library at Columbia, the American Mu-
seum of Natural History and nationally noted schools and colleges.
One should take note of the monuments on the order of Grant's tomb,
the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Statue of Jeanne d'Arc and
the Washington Arch. The city parks have a total acreage of over 9300
acres, of which Pelham Bay Park is the largest. Other interesting parks
are Central Park on Manhattan Island; Riverside Park along the
Hudson; and Prospect Park in Brooklyn. The Statue of Liberty is a
famous landmark of New York and known throughout the world. The
statue has enormous dimensions, being 305 feet 6 inches in height, from
foundation of the pedestal to the torch. Forty persons can stand in the
head and twelve in the torch. The right arm is 42 feet long. Many noted
beaches and amusement parks are within close proximity to the center of
New York, the most famous being Brighton Beach and Coney Island,
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National Map Company. Official Paved Road and Commercial Survey of the United States, book, 1929; Indianapolis, Indiana. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth62067/m1/5/: accessed July 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .